Ecological conflicts: Representative claims, conflict strategies, and the contours of the coming society

Ecological conflicts are shaping the contours of the future society. In these conflicts, political institutions are renegotiated (representation of future generations, rivers, mountains), new and old social groups are invoked by representative claims (the "last generation," the "steak-eaters of society"), and their confrontations redraw the boundaries of "civilized" conflicts. In short, they shape the institutional order, the privileged social groups, and the dynamics of political contestation, The goal of the project is to systematically analyze the normative claims and strategic relations and to trace the contours of the emergent society through the ecological conflicts.